Tonreagh Lower

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonreagh Lower, from 589 m² to 210,568 m² (21.06 ha, 52.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Tonreagh Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Jun 2017Conditional

  (A) EXTEND EXISTING ACCESS ROAD AND (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17559

• 7 Apr 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17311

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tonreagh Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KE029-136 Fulacht fia
  Description

  'Situated in marshy, gently sloping, south - south-east facing land, this site is a well preserved example of a classic fulacht fiadh. The mound is crescentic or horseshoe shaped with the trough area opening to the west. The mound remains to a maximum height of 1.34m and measures 18.3m N-S by 17.8m E-W. The trough area is sub-rectangular and measures 4.2m N-S by 6.8m E-W.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 12 July 2012

• KE029-260 Burnt mound
  Description

  'The small field in which these mounds are located is extremely wet and marshy. The nearby recorded fulacht fiadh (KE029-136----) is a classic horseshoe shaped mound......total dimensions of this mound [KE029-260----] are 14.0m N-S by 7.00m E-W (not the total diameter E-W as the western side has been truncated ) and is 1.00m in height. It is now covered with a growth of grass and reeds, and is stone-filled. No trough area is apparent.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 02 May 2012

• KE029-261 Burnt mound
  Description

  'The small field in which these mounds are located is extremely wet and marshy. The nearby recorded fulacht fiadh (KE029-136----) is a classic horseshoe shaped mound......this second mound [see also KE029-260----] is also stone-filled and overgrown with grass and reeds, and is kidney shaped in plan. It is situated in the same field as the mound mentioned above and measures 9.00m N-S by 6.00m E-W with a maximum height of 0.60m. No trough area is apparent in this mound.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 02 May 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tonreagh Lower.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_160 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Tonreagh Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Tonreagh Lower · An Tóin Riabhach Íochtarach

Area

626,569 m² (62.66 ha, 154.83 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacelligott, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Arabela, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Arabela electoral division: 1,664 people in 466 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyaukeen, Ballynahinch, Carrignafeela, Gortnaleaha, Kilduff, Tonreagh Upper

Placenames

Tonreagh Lower on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.